Articles Written by Lee Wylie

Canelo Alvarez came out hammering against Alfredo Angulo on March 8 in Las Vegas, and put his punches together all night long in fine fashion.
Let's break down and examine and appreciate some of the methods he used, to better comprehend how the 23-year-old Mexican, now 43-1-1, earned a TKO10 victory.
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Hey fight fan.
Yeah, you.
Think you know what happened in that ring in Zaire on Oct. 30, 1974 when Muhammad Ali again confounded the world, and slayed another fire-breather?
Think you know how Ali lured George Foreman into doing what the past-his-prime showman wanted him to do, and believe that the Rope a Dope was the whole differential in Zaire?
Well, let's examine that masterful showing a bit deeper, shall we, and dissect the battle frame by frame.
I think you'll see some tricks of the trade dispensed by The Greatest in a different...

Dear Readers and Viewers of TSS and the Boxing Channel:
Over the last few months, degenerate boxing addict--in a good way!--Lee Wylie has been learning and working toward mastering The Wylie Method of dissecting fight video, in order to best convey what the sports' most skilled ring generals are doing technically in the ring to bring them to the finishing line with the W.
Wylie, moving forward, will be gracing us with these videos, crafted with his now trademark obsessiveness--in a good way!--and expertise.
Please enjoy this effort,...

Floyd Mayweather moved one step closer towards finishing his professional boxing career with an unbeaten record after clearly outpointing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in what was the biggest boxing event of 2013 on Saturday night.
Prior to the fight, I believed Canelo's intelligence, size, power, patience, and explosiveness were destined to give Floyd his toughest outing since narrowly escaping with a “unanimous decision win” over Jose Luis Castillo back in 2002.
More than that, I did the unthinkable and picked Canelo to “shock the boxing...

Previously, in the first installment of this two-part analysis, I examined the preferred techniques of the most scientific fighter in boxing today, Floyd Mayweather. On top of that, I also highlighted some of the ways in which one, namely Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, could potentially scout some of those techniques and look to capitalize on them.
In today’s concluding part, I will be taking one last look at both Mayweather and Canelo, along with going over some of the more strategic and intangible elements of what promises to be the biggest...

Floyd Mayweather is generally regarded as the best fighter in boxing today. Despite being almost 37 years-old, he has yet to show any conclusive signs that may point to his decline. That his record has remained unblemished in spite of a 17 year-long professional boxing career that has seen him rise through five separate weight classes is really quite astonishing. While his many critics will highlight the fact that he has, on more than one occasion, managed to avoid some of the more risky challenges that were out there for him, only an all-time...

A sensational offensive fighter with sound defense, Gennady Golovkin may be the best middleweight in the world. And what’s more, he may be even better than we think. It’s getting to the point now with Golovkin —as was once the case with a young Mike Tyson— where the question is not “did he win?”, but more “in what round did he win?” After taking fewer than three rounds to dismantle Matthew Macklin on Saturday night, “GGG” not only proved what a devastating puncher he is (he has now stopped 24 of his 27 opponents), but that...

Mikey Garcia somewhat redeemed himself for failing to make the featherweight limit by demolishing Juan Manuel Lopez inside four rounds on Saturday night. After a reasonably competitive opening frame in which Juanma managed to sneak in a couple of noteworthy left hands, Garcia found his rhythm and proceeded to systematically deconstruct his overmatched opponent in each of the remaining three rounds, knocking him down in the second and again for good in the fourth.
In this analysis, I’d like to examine how Mikey Garcia was able to take Lopez...